Finger-ring guard



' H. LEVIN.

FINGER RING GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. I9l7- 1 341,218 Patented May 25, 1920.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIS LEVIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FINGER-BIN G GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application filed April 11, 1917. Serial No. 161,192. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARms LEVIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of N. Y., have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finger- Ring Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to finger ring guards and consists of an endless band of parallel parts provided with loops through which the guard is attached to the ring, as will be explained reference being had to the following specification and claim and the drawing in which- Figure 1 shows a ring with the ring guard attached,

Fig. 2 shows a blank cut out of sheet metal from which blank the guard is made in an integral piece,

Fig. 3 shows a finished ring guard made from the blank shown in Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 shows two wires and two expanded end pieces which when soldered together in four places will form the finished device, and

Fig. shows the finished ring guard formed by soldering together the elements shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawing there is shown a ring 10 carrying a ring protector 12 being convex on the lower side and having the end pieces 13 which may be pressed against the ring by means of a plier so as to be very firmly attached.

The device may be made by cutting a blank out of sheet gold which may be l-t karat; such a blank 11 is shown in Fig. 2 as having the sides 12 and the ends 1?). This blank is afterward pressed into form when it assumes the shape shown in Fig. 3. The guard may also be formed by soldering two wires 12 to the end parts 13 and soldering these parts together to assume the shape shown in Fig. 5. It is preferable that the wires 12 be made from hard drawn gold and therefore springy and the ends 13 made of soft metal to be more pliable and therefore more easily and closely attached to the ring. The springiness of the central portion of the finger guard has the ad vantage of holding the ring firmly and elastically on the finger so as to keep the jeglvel or the seal of the ring 011 the upper s1 e.

This device is an improvement on the guard shown .in U. S. Pat. 1217097 dated Feb. 20, 1917. The improvement consists in the enlarged end parts 13 and 13 and also in the preparation of the metal so as to make the middle part springy and the end part soft.

l Vhen the ring guard is to be used on a platinum ring, the ends l3, 13' may be made of platinum.

\Vhat I claim is:

A finger ring guard. consisting of an endless metallic element bent so as to form a curve, the convex portion of which is adapted to face the lower portion of the ring when the guard is attached thereto. the metal. of the parts adapted to comein contact with the ring being of soft metal and the intermediate portions consisting of spring metal.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of N. Y. this 9th day of April A. D. 1917.

HARRIS LEVIN. 

